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Music
Electronic pioneer
Moog Music’s website puts it best: “What would the world of modern music be like without the inventions of Bob Moog?” Moog (pronounced “Mow-g”), who died in 2005, is arguably the father modern electronic music. His keyboard synthesizers, with their warm, quirky sounds, were among the first synths available to the wider consumer market. Bands like Parliament Funkadelic and, later, Stereolab were fans of Moog instruments, as was filmmaker Stanley Kubrick—A Clockwork Orange wouldn’t be the same without its Moog-driven soundtrack. On Saturday, Aug. 29, the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad (5790 Armada Drive) launches Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Bob Moog, the most comprehensive exhibit of Moog instruments and artifacts since Moog’s death. The opening-night reception is sold out, but there are tickets available for the 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, talk “Conversations in the Key of Moog” with experts Brian Kehew and Larry Fast, and there’ll be additional special events throughout the exhibit’s eight-month run. www.museumofmakingmusic.org.
Cancer fighters: Like just about everyone else, the members of local bands Geezer and Ilya were mighty bummed when the Beastie Boys had to cancel their Street Scene appearance when Adam Yauch learned he had a tumor in his salivary gland. But rather than lament, the two bands joined forces, dubbed themselves Licensed to Ilya and will play two nights of live Beastie Boys covers to benefit the charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The first is Thursday, Aug. 27, at the Ruby Room (1271 University Ave. in Hillcrest), followed by a midnight set on Friday, Aug. 28, at U-31 (3112 University Ave. in North Park). No cover on Thursday, $5 on Friday, and a hat will be passed at both, so kick down. www.getoffofmylawn.com. The altruism doesn’t stop there. On Sunday, Aug. 30, former San Diegan and breast-cancer survivor Laura Roppé returns home to play a benefit show at Belly Up Tavern (143 S. Cedros Ave. in Solana Beach). If you’re not familiar with Roppé, this would be a great night to catch her. Her new album, Girl Like This, is gaining momentum after climbing to No. 5 on the U.K. charts, and she may not be playing such intimate clubs for long. www.bellyup.com.
Art
Form follows function
If the art of Bret J. Barrett looks familiar, you may remember that CityBeat ran his painting “Smoky the Bot” on our cover earlier this year. Since then, Barrett’s been hard at work preparing new paintings and sculptural work for his solo show, Transports of Form, at the Art of Framing Gallery (3333 Adams Ave. in Normal Heights), opening with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29. Since his boyhood in Green Bay, Wisc., Barrett’s been combining his love of technology and nature into art projects that range from oil paintings of kitty-cat-powered helicopters to kinetic sculptures of ducks built out of scrap parts. His style continues to change with the times, but the theme of worlds colliding continues to shine through with fantastic and fantastical results. 619-563-9770, www.theartofframing.net.
Dream a little dream: Legendary journalist Hunter Thompson might’ve rendered the American Dream as good as dead throughout the course of his career, but not everyone is taking his word as the end of the discussion. Take mixed-media artist Gregg Jabs, for example. In his latest installation, An American Dream, Jabs looks at how we interpret the pursuit of happiness, repositioning consumerist iconography, such as Mr. Potato Head and G.I. Joe, as deeply problematic and dysfunctional characters. It’s provocative, funny and slightly frightening, but anything less wouldn’t be as American. Or would it? A reception for the show—including wine and hors d’oeuvres—will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way. $10. www.oma-online.org.
Dance
Urban grind
If you never miss an episode of America’s Best Dance Crew and your cinematic guilty pleasures include Step Up and Save the Last Dance, then you probably already know about the World of Dance Tour on Saturday, Aug. 29. For the rest, the event is the largest national urban dance competition, combining choreography, freestyle dance and fashion with an emphasis on youth lifestyle. But you don’t have to be an adolescent to enjoy the talent on display. Some of the biggest groups in the dance world, like Quest Crew and Super Cr3w, will compete on multiple stages, and there’ll also be a “garment district” with more than 50 companies displaying the latest in street-wear fashion. The competition kicks off at 3 p.m. and goes until midnight at the San Diego Convention Center (111 West Harbor Drive, Downtown). Tickets are $25 in advance, $40 at the door. www.worldofdancetour.com.
Special Events
Making it real
Just a few years ago, creative locals would have traded their best set of vintage buttons to have something like Portland’s Crafty Wonderland or Boston’s Bizarre Bazaar, where DIYers get a chance to sell their handmade goods to the public. Then up sprung the North Park Craft Mafia, a talented group of crafters with a goal of offering shoppers an alternative to mass-produced, foreign-made retail goods. From 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, the Craft Mafia celebrates its second anniversary with a craft fair and party at the Ruby Room (1271 University Ave. in Hillcrest). In addition to vendors—both Craft Mafia members and handpicked local DIYers—there’ll be drink specials, two fashion shows (one for dogs and one for people) and a mafia-themed costume contest with prizes for the best-dressed. www.sandiegonorthparkcraftmafia.com.
Photography
Pretty pictures
The folks who put together the annual Art of Photography Show say that this year’s foray is by far the largest juried photographic exhibition in the history of San Diego—and why would they lie about a thing like that? Since 2004, the show has grown from 525 entries to more than 16,000 this year, submitted by shooters in 57 countries. This year’s judge, Charlotte Cotton, curator and director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, selected 111 photos, and the preview images alone make this an event worth recommending. Things get started with a free opening reception and awards ceremony from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery, at Horton Plaza, Downtown, and the show will remain on view through Nov. 1. www.artofphotographyshow.com.
Community
Suffragist city
San Diego’s Women’s History Museum isn’t interested in gathering dust. It would rather help history come alive, and it’ll do so starting at 4 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 29, with the second annual Suffrage Parade. Don your best 1930s garb and meet at the Kate Sessions statue in Balboa Park (near the southwest corner of the intersection between Laurel and Sixth avenues). From there, the parade—with grand marshals Congresswoman Susan Davis, Judy “The Beauty” Forman from The Big Kitchen restaurant and women’s rights activist Gracia Molina de Pick—will proceed across the Cabrillo Bridge to the Balboa Park Club lawn for a lemonade social. From 6 to 9 p.m., there’ll be a Suffrage Ball inside the Balboa Park Club, featuring music from the ’30s performed by the Sue Palmer Orchestra and Jimmy Woodard of the Swinging Kings, dinner, a dance marathon, a costume contest and more for $25 to $30. www.whmec.org.
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